CAPISTRANO EL

CAPISTRANO EL is one of the small elementary campuss in EL PASO, Texas, overseen by YSLETA ISD, with 415 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so CAPISTRANO EL sits 20% below that benchmark.

Across the 49 schools in YSLETA ISD (34,062 students total), CAPISTRANO EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, CAPISTRANO EL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (99%). By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 83% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, El Paso County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CAPISTRANO EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.2%; this one delivers 19.4%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate median household earnings sit near $59,806, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. CAPISTRANO EL is one of 273 public schools in El Paso County (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students).

YSLETA MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CAPISTRANO EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CAPISTRANO EL at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 44.0%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. CAPISTRANO EL's enrollment has edged down 3% since 2018, when it stood at 427 (now 415).

In the discussion threads here, members of the CAPISTRANO EL community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.